>> absolutely. >> that's how america normally does, it i guess. let me ask you. interesting to look around the world and see austerity everywhere you look. we're looking at this subject, whether it's in the united states, in italy, throughout europe. give us your sense of what's going on with the debt situation in italy right now. news today, of course, that the public debt rose above 2 trillion euro for the first time in october. can the government get the debt under control in italy? >> you know, we started to manage our spending review last year when government took place. there was a huge parliamentary alignment around the agenda of the prime minister because the crisis effect was that there was no alternative, so everyone had to really support an agenda of tackling the control of costs and tackling the reforms that every country needs, every democracy needs. the agenda was put in place so fast that it had an effect also on the italian reputation and negotiating power versus the other european countries, and the effect of that, all the measures that the ecb t